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Lot 596

The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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edited by The Duke of Beaufort, K.G., assisted by Alfred E.T. Watson, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885-1896, 24 volumes on various sports including fishing, shooting, hunting, cycling, and more, bound in three quarter leather over cloth boards, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt lettering and decoration to spines, five raised bands, teg

Provenance: Private Florida Collection

Condition

wear to extremities, bumped corners, some lifting and losses to leather especially at spines, some with hinges tender or boards starting, scattered toning, dampstaining, and light foxing throughout; Shooting: Moor and Marsh with front board detached;ΓΏDriving with some burn marks and losses to spine